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Ancient Classics -> Book of Changes -> Tuan Zhuan -> Bo -> 1.1

Bo denotes overthrowing or being overthrown.
We see (in the figure) the weak lines (threatening to) change the (last) strong line (into one of themselves).
That 'it will not be advantageous to make a movement in any direction whatever'
appears from the fact that the small men are (now) growing and increasing.
The superior man acts according to (the exigency of the time), and stops all forward movement,
looking at the (significance of the) symbolic figures (in the hexagram).
君子He values the processes of decrease and increase, of fulness and decadence,
(as seen) in the movements of the heavenly bodies.


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